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The Blessed Lord said Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed Arjuna, the mind is difficult to control and restless; but by practice and by dispassion it may be restrained.

The Lord said: No doubt, mighty-armed one, the mind is restless and hard to hold. But it can be held, son of Kunti, by practice and by dispassion.

Krishna does not deny the difficulty. He agrees that the mind is restless and hard to restrain. But he names two means by which it can be held: practice (abhyāsa), the repeated, patient effort of returning the mind to its focus, and dispassion (vairāgya), the gradual loosening of attachment to objects. The pair has become a classic formula in Indian thought. Practice gives direction, and dispassion removes what pulls the mind away. The answer is encouraging precisely because it does not deny the problem.